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telehealth while Louisiana's case against the Food and Drug Administration [moves through the lower courts](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/14/nx-s1-5821591/mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-telehealth). The Supreme Court stayed a May 1 ruling from the New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit
Supreme Court's ruling [temporarily restores nationwide telehealth access](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5810510/supreme-court-mifepristone-appeals-telehealth) to the medication. - 🎧 **Medication abortion today accounts for 60% of all abortions in the U.S.,** most of them using mifepristone
access to abortion, have been based on politics rather than evidence, experts say. In 2023, the FDA ended a requirement to prescribe mifepristone in person, opening up remote dispensation via telehealth. The supreme court ruled
access Thursday. The high court's order means the abortion pill mifepristone will remain available via telehealth as a case brought by Louisiana against the Food and Drug Administration proceeds through the lower courts
rule by the Republican-led state of Louisiana. The [Supreme Court’s](/news/2024/6/13/us-supreme-court-upholds-access-to-abortion-pill) action, called an “administrative stay”, gives the justices more time to review emergency requests by two manufacturers of mifepristone to ensure that
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday put a one-week hold on major changes to how the abortion pill mifepristone can be prescribed. [![Mifepristone tablets sit on a table at a Planned Parenthood clinic
Supreme Court asking for a quick change back to the Biden-era rules, as the case continues. In an earlier case involving mifepristone, the high court did just that. Something similar may happen again